DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY COUNCIL Employee Reviews

Start 0730 finish about 1400. Can be enjoyable if weather is ok. Used to be a laugh. What is wrong now is that too many KMA's are bosses. They forget they were one of us(WORKERS). Too much cover up if your face fits. Great job went wrong.

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Can be enjoyable

Leisure Attendant Dumfries Icebowl (Current Employee) - Dumfries - 25 May 2019

Depending on which service you work for can be great. Leisure & Sport is one of the better services to work for. Good team members and all pull together when needed

Pros

Good to work for

Cons

depends on contracted hours can be early start or late finish but not really a con

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Insights into DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY COUNCIL

Based on 6 survey responses

What people like

Fair pay for job
Clear sense of purpose

Areas for improvement

Trust in colleagues
Sense of belonging
Feeling of personal appreciation

Suffering from cuts

Care Worker (Current Employee) - Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway - 5 March 2019

More and more work being piled on less and less workers but generally a good place to work even if managment lack brains to be in such a high position.

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Ok place to work

Supervisor (Former Employee) - Dumfries and Galloway - 31 January 2019

Ok place to work, people on the ground all try their best, but management don't know their jobs and don't care about those below them, look elsewhere if you want to advance.

Pros

Ok pay

Cons

management

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A great team to work for

Domestic Assistant (Current Employee) - Domestic assistant - 7 August 2018

I loved this job, it was jso st time for a change for me. Was lack of organisation I didn’t like Rotas were always different so sometimes you didn’t know wot u were working the next week until a Friday after shift. Which made it hard to make appointments dentist etc which. U would then need time off for.

Pros

Meeting new people

Cons

Unusual work shifts bad organisation of Rotas

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Not good career advancement opportunities

Clerical Assistant (Current Employee) - Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway - 28 June 2018

If you have values and stick up for yourself in the workplace then D&G Council May not be the employer for you. Very much “jobs for the boys” and if your face fits you will go far. If not,you’ll be getting appearance money and not at the best rate.

Pros

Stable enough

Cons

Management don’t know their people

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Productive

Grounds Maintenance Operative (Current Employee) - Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway - 19 February 2018

A Good place to work and it offers a good pension scheme that can be paid into. And can iver good benifits to progress up the career ladder with training

Pros

Pension

Cons

Cut backs

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an ok place

Cook/Cleaner (Current Employee) - Scotland - 16 August 2017

The problem lies with management apart from that its a good place to work. good pension and company benefits to be had. Most contracts are temp contracts which isnt ideal.

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place for the younger people

Mobile Library Driver (Current Employee) - Dumfries, SCT - 3 November 2015

This used to be a great place to work but after 25 years i would like to try something new, feels like i am turning into my dad ! the council are trying very hard to make changes, but have their system that seems like hard work to me. Though they ask for fresh ideas knowbody !! wants to stand up to the plate, and accept responsibility .

Pros

meet lots off interesting people and sights when driving around dumfries & galloway

Cons

time you either have too much or not enough in the day.

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productive

Refuge Collector (Former Employee) - Dumfries, SCT - 19 June 2015

learned different jobs within the council most of the workers were ok to work with there werent any hard parts of the job the job was enjoyable at some points

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Senior Administrative Assistant (Former Employee) - Dumfries - 9 October 2014

Dealing with parents and benefits offices. Staff was fun to work with once got used to you. Learned how the schools deal with free school meals and clothing grants.

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